First off, let's set aside the fact that there is no way that McGee and his team would be investigating a shooting that he's involved in, as that sort of thing has happened in past episodes already. (With McGee, no less!)

And let's also ignore that the break-in at his apartment would definitely fall under the jurisdiction of the local police force, not NCIS, because there wouldn't be an episode otherwise.

The story itself wasn't very complex, but it did make for a fun sort of popcorn episode (mostly at McGee's expense).

It's unfortunate that furriers and taxidermists are almost always portrayed on television as creepy and/or deranged, if not downright insane. They leaned pretty hard on that trope with the unhinged villain Paul.

He was definitely unsettling, in a please-let-me-take-a-shower sort of way, but reminded me more of a less-stylish Cruella de Vil than anything else.

At least his original dismemberment crime ended up having a logical motive (skewed logic, but logic nonetheless).

McGee [about his apartment's former tenant]: Did you know that when they found him, he was completely soaked in blood from head to toe? Cops could barely tell that he was human. They said that he looked more like Satan.Quinn: ...Well, if you ever *do* tell Delilah, you should probably leave that out.